Careful there AZ, as one Senior Citizen to another, live to ride another day! Great picture though. Looks like how I felt and looked trying to get up Tin Cup pass from the North Side......didn't make it.

Careful there AZ, as one Senior Citizen to another, live to ride another day! Great picture though. Looks like how I felt and looked trying to get up Tin Cup pass from the North Side......didn't make it.

Not to worry, my crew including 80 year old Taylor on an ATV came to my rescue Got the bike out of it's troubled spot & we comtinued on

Not to worry, my crew including 80 year old Taylor on an ATV came to my rescue Got the bike out of it's troubled spot & we comtinued on

Did you crash there or was it just time for a break?

Looks like about how I felt riding some gnarlly single track above Taylor Park last September. Several times.
The little WRR just kept on chugging up and over , never missed a beat, it just had to stop and wait for me every 1/4 mile while I sat on a rock and regrouped.

My crew, one riding buddy several years younger than me, just sat there and looked at me until I could get up again. Of course I think he was glad for the rest stops

Looks like about how I felt riding some gnarlly single track above Taylor Park last September. Several times.
The little WRR just kept on chugging up and over , never missed a beat, it just had to stop and wait for me every 1/4 mile while I sat on a rock and regrouped.

My crew, one riding buddy several years younger than me, just sat there and looked at me until I could get up again. Of course I think he was glad for the rest stops

Looks like about how I felt riding some gnarlly single track above Taylor Park last September. Several times.
The little WRR just kept on chugging up and over , never missed a beat, it just had to stop and wait for me every 1/4 mile while I sat on a rock and regrouped.

My crew, one riding buddy several years younger than me, just sat there and looked at me until I could get up again. Of course I think he was glad for the rest stops

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I must have been on that same track in October. At a couple points I was looking for a place to video a goodbye message to the family in hopes they would find the memory card when they found my body. Luckily there was a way out going forward cause there was no way in hell that I would have made it out by backtracking. It improved my skills but they are still nothing compared to my riding buddies.

I must have been on that same track in October. At a couple points I was looking for a place to video a goodbye message to the family in hopes they would find the memory card when they found my body. Luckily there was a way out going forward cause there was no way in hell that I would have made it out by backtracking. It improved my skills but they are still nothing compared to my riding buddies.

Great idea. Can you attach a spare cig plug to an existing trickle charger or do you have to be concerned about the voltage/amp differences. I have a trickle charger that I plug straight to the batter.

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Originally Posted by ramz

Very nice electrical setup.

You can, of course, trickle charge through the always-on Cig#1 or Cig#2 with a suitable adapter (trickle charger SAE to Cig) ...

Great idea. Can you attach a spare cig plug to an existing trickle charger or do you have to be concerned about the voltage/amp differences. I have a trickle charger that I plug straight to the batter.

Anyone have an opinion on aftermarket steel handlebars? Outlaw Racing has some "Ultra High Strength Steel" bars. Think they're truly any stronger than any other steel bars, or just fancy marketing? I'd like to stick with steel so my heated grip cartridges still work, but I don't want them to bend again.

Waiting for winter to end, so I spent a couple of hours cleaning the spokes for my 17" wheels and mounting new OEM brake rotors (the original rotors were transferred to the SM Pro dirt rims). Also swapped out the OEM 42T sprocket for a steel SuperSprox 48T. With so much time to kill, I even went the extra step of getting fancy stainless steel button head Allen bolts and used a small dab of blue Loctite.

In all fairness, Tom was/is recovering from a shoulder operation. He had on a cool weather jacket for his ride over from prescott, so he was also overheated. It was after 2pm by now, & well past our lunch time. We were supposed to be on an 'easy' ride with some new friends.. we won't be seeing them again. Even Kim rode his quad.. this trail was pretty tough. The rocks were big & never let up. The hills were steep & kept going.

Fortunately, after this, the trail leveled out & we had only one long, rocky downhill section, with a couple of more water crossings. Then he had another 50 miles or so to get back to prescott.